Two days later, he led the general soldiers of the Tielong Camp and the troops stationed on the west bank of Shitong River outside Suizhou City, in a steep fort. The Chang'an monk from the Tielong Camp received a letter from Feige written by Li Xiao.

"Damn, Lord Li's letter is so long, it's so difficult for me to understand it roughly. Hu Guanfu, you are a very handsome boy at least. I miss you, what is the letter written by Lord Li?"

Monk An, who once did not teach a big word, had learned hundreds of words after several months of cultural study, but it was quite difficult to understand such a letter written in small regular script. Therefore, after receiving this letter, he, who had scratched his bright scalp and sizzled, gave it to Hu Shangwen, the director of the Iron Dragon Camp, to read aloud without hesitation.

Hu Shangwen smiled bitterly, sighed softly, and answered the letter and read aloud.

"...... In order to recruit refugees as soon as possible to promote our army's great cause overseas development, we now have a unique plan to inform you. I hope that after receiving the letter, we will implement it immediately. From now on, we can send people to various places to suppress bandits and the Ming Army to inform us of the newly established rules of our army, so that they can send all the captured prisoners and the collected refugees to our army, and you can pay the silver to collect them. The tentative purchase price is 3 taels per adult man, 2 taels per adult woman, and 1 tael per young and old. After the refugees and prisoners were collected, they would be escorted back to Tielong City, Shandong in thousands of batches, and then sent to Dengzhou City by Feng Shuangli, the head of the Iron Camp Bing Camp, to Dengzhou City..."

"Damn! Lord Li is willing to spend money. These refugees who are worthless and have to care about our money for food, drink, defecation and urination. They even have to pay for our army to spend money to buy it? Tsk tsk, I don't know which civil servant is a crooked civil servant who is trying to get the bad idea."

When Monk An, who had finished reading Hu Shangwen, was cursing himself, Hu Shangwen frowned.

"Battlefield Commander An, Mr. Hu thinks that Lord Li's arrangement is very easy to plan." Hu Shangwen stroked his beard and said.

"Fuck, I'd pay such a guy to eat and drink, and I have to pay for money to buy it from the Ming army of his troops. Is this a good plan?" Monk An repeatedly curled his lips.

"Battlefield Commander An, you can't say that." Hu Shangwen smiled and said, "Look, our army has come to Suizhou and is stationed in this fort. It is difficult to move freely. He often works with the Ming army in various departments to attack, so he has no spare time to search for refugees. I have been here for nearly two months, but I have only sent more than 1,000 refugees, which is still far from the goal set by Lord Li. According to the students' opinion, this plan is quite good."

"You can tell me more."

"Adults, students have read "Xunzi. Encouragement of Learning", and their text says: Those who use carriages and horses are not profitable, but can lead to thousands of miles; those who use boats and oars are not capable of water, but can escape rivers and rivers. A gentleman is not born differently, but is good at using things..."

"Go to your mother! Who heard you drop your bag?" Monk An interrupted Hu Shangwen with an irritable look on his face: "You are so arrogant that you can do it. Don't say such a sour text anymore. Tell me, why do you say that Lord Li's plan to buy people is a good plan?"

Hu Shangwen frowned, with a helpless look on his face, and he thought for a while and said, "Mr. An, I'm just an example. It's like someone can go thousands of miles away, not good at walking, but because he rides a bicycle and horse. Some people can cross the river, not because he is good at swimming, but because he knows how to take a boat. Therefore, the students believe that Lord Li must have come up with this strategy because we are too busy to act, hoping to use the Ming army of other troops to automatically send prisoners and refugees to the city when they get the benefits of money. In this way, we only need to transfer and transport, and we don't have to worry about labor and search for refugees. Isn't that very convenient?"

After listening to Hu Shangwen's explanation, Monk An scratched his head again, and a smile gradually appeared on his face full of flesh.

"Fuck, it's true that I've been reading for a few years. I think about the problem much more clearly than a big man like us." Monk An smiled and said, "Since that's the case, I will immediately send military troops to send a letter to the nearby Ming army, tell them the rules of Lord Li, and give these birds a chance to make a fortune."

In just a few days, the Ming army nearby received a notice of buying a person from Monk An.

After receiving a notice from Monk An to buy someone, the Ming army near Suizhou all caused a joke, thinking that Monk An was so idle that he wanted to make fun of them.

However, Fan Zhipiao, the Kaifeng general stationed in the southern part of Suizhou, who was stationed in Pingli City on the east bank of the Shui River, was unconsciously moved.

Kaifeng general Fan Zhibiao is under the command of Chen Yongfu, the general of Henan. Since he and the guerrilla Li Chungui, the deputy general under the tent, led his troops to listen to the transfer to Huguang to suppress bandits, he has been operating in Suizhou area.

Some time ago, his troops had just defeated the troops of the bandits and the troops of Zukuan from Liaodong in the Xiaogan area south of Suizhou. Zukuan led his people to continue pursuing, while Fan Zhipiao escorted the prisoners and a group of refugees who were coerced by the 100,000 yuan to return to Pingli City.

Originally, he could hand over the prisoners and refugees to Wang Tao, the governor of Suizhou, to deal with them. Wang Tao would allocate land and resettle them in Huguang according to the court's policy. But now, when Fan Zhipiao saw the news of buying people sent by Monk An, his heart became alive.

"General Fan Chan, in the opinion of the humble general, the prisoners and refugees we obtained after fighting with the bandits to fight to the bandits, instead of giving them to the governor of Suizhou without any money, it would be better to hand over these people to Monk Na'an. What if this guy's notice of buying someone is not fooling people?" The guerrilla Li Chungui hesitated and suggested to Fan Zhipu.

Fan Zhipu frowned and looked undisputed, but he was nervously planning in his heart.

As a general, he certainly knew the rules of the court.

The Ming army's military achievements were mainly calculated by the head level. The most valuable head was the Qing Tartars that pose the greatest threat to the Ming Dynasty. It was simply called the Donglu. If an ordinary soldier killed one Donglu, he could immediately be awarded the first level. The second level was the Mongolian Tartars, abbreviated as the Beilu. Two heads could be awarded the half level, and the second was the head level of various types of bandits. The value of their head level was greatly reduced, and they had to behead twenty to be awarded the first level. However, because there were too many bandits in recent years and the official army had a serious record of killing good deeds and taking credit, the Ministry of War of the court was quite suspicious of such reports of military achievements, and was most ignored. The issuance of rewards and promotions was always delayed.

In addition, even so, the rewards issued by the court in his current state of shortage of money have been greatly reduced compared with previous years. It may be promoted according to regulations for military positions, but the other rewards have become increasingly poor. As for the money for resettlement of refugees and prisoners obtained, there is no penny.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Yang He, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, when he was recruiting the thieves such as Shen Yikui, Lao Honglang, etc., the court issued a symbolic resettlement fee of more than 20,000 taels. Although it was a drop in the bucket and was mostly embezzled by subordinate officials, it was finally better than nothing.

However, now, the court's finances are becoming increasingly difficult, and the suppression fee has just been charged, and the money is very tight everywhere, so I can't afford such resettlement costs.

Therefore, after listening to Yang Sichang's suggestion, Chongzhen asked the Ming army of various departments to capture the prisoners and refugees, and did not have to send the prisoners back to their hometowns as before, but directly handed them over to local government officials to settle and deal with them in nearby areas to save costs.

The court's stinginess made the Ming army, which had originally been expected to secretly reap the benefits and waters from the court's resettlement fees, disappointed.

The prisoners who were settled nearby were actually difficult to farm with peace of mind because they were in the war zone and were constantly fighting. As for government officials at all levels, because the government itself was short of money and there were a lot of corrupt officials, these refugees who were resettled nearby were often hungry and cold and no one was concerned about it. Therefore, there were many rebels, and even rebels, which made the Ming army's hard-earned achievements go into nothing.

Thinking of this, a sneer appeared on Fan Zhipu's face.

"Hmph, you don't make a bastard if you have money! Instead of giving it to the governor of Suizhou for free, you can't get any money. And there is a risk of rebellion again in the future. It's better to send Monk An, a bald guy. Since the bald donkey has sent the news of buying someone, if you dare to turn against me and dare to play with me, I will definitely chop off his bald donkey's head as a urinary!"

After hearing that the general's intention was settled, the guerrilla Li Chungui suddenly had a bright smile on his face: "General Fan Shen is wise! This group of prisoners has been counted. The number of prisoners and refugees in our army now has 820 adult men, 452 adult women, 315 young and old. If the regulations sent by Monk An, then this adult man can get 2,460 taels of silver, 904 adult women can get 3,150 taels of silver, and 3,679 taels of silver. With this batch of silver, we don't have to wait for the extermination of the salary, and we can pay our army's salary for two or three months, which is a good thing!"

Fan Zhipu's eyes were also bright. He slapped his thigh and said loudly: "It's great! It's not too late for this matter. I will join you in escorting these prisoners and refugees to the Na'an Monk's headquarters."

"Get orders!"

Two hours later, Fan Zhipiao and others who were heading north along the Shuishi River led the refugees and captured them to Monk An's residence.

"Fuck your mother An Tulu! Open the door quickly, I'm here to send you a person!"

Under the bright summer sun, Fan Zhipiao, who was covered in sweat, shouted loudly at the fort where Monk An stationed.

"Enter your mother! Fan Zhipiao shouted, "What's the name? Grandpa's ears are not deaf!"

Monk An, who was personally leading a group of soldiers to sweat profusely in the fort schoolyard, heard Fan Zhipiao's shout and immediately replied with a smile.

"Open the door and let these slaughter birds come in."

Soon, the suspension bridge was put down, and Fan Zhipiao asked the escort soldiers and prisoners to stay outside, and took Li Guichun and a group of cavalry to enter the fort.

Seeing Monk An coming from the school ground, Fan Zhipi wiped sweat from his face, then punched Monk An on his shoulder, shouting: "Monk, let me ask you, you sent someone to send me the news of buying people, but is it his mother's words?!"

Monk An, whose shoulder hurts by Fan Zhipu's punch, was very angry and immediately replied loudly: "My mother! Monk An, I always speak with spit and nails! Tell you, from now on, we will deliver the goods and pay with the other hand. How many people you have brought, I will give you how much money, without any ambiguity. Do you think you are so idle, you want to use you gangs of birds to find happiness? Don't say nonsense, where are the prisoners and refugees you brought?"

"Hmph, that's good! The prisoners and refugees are all outside, and they are all brought to you." Fan Zhipu said with his eyes slanted.

"Okay, Supervisor Hu, let's go inspect the goods now." A strange smile flashed across Monk An's face, and turned his head to Hu Shangwen beside him and said.

"Okay."

Hu Shangwen, who had a smile on his face, immediately responded loudly.

Soon, Monk An, Hu Shangwen and others counted all the prisoners and refugees brought by Fan Zhipiao and Li Guichun.

These prisoners and refugees were consistent with the number of people provided by Fan Zhipiao, and Anhu and the others were all satisfied.

"Hey, I said, Fan Zhipu, the personnel classification you provide is a bit different from what we count now." Monk An deliberately played with Fan Zhipu, with a strange smile on his face.

Fan Zhipu was anxious and said sternly: "Monkey An, you are so proud that you don't want to take kickbacks, you just cheated me like this! Our army has carefully counted this personnel classification, and where can you not match it?!"

Monk An laughed: "Look at you guys, you're anxious when I talk. I tell you, Monk An really doesn't like this kickback. Our Tiger Army has a lot of money and food and a lot of salary, but it's not as poor as you. I want to make some extra money every day. Not to mention that I don't have the intention to make kickbacks, let's talk about our army. We have the Security Department and the Supervisor Department. Even if we want to reach out, we are afraid of punishment from our superiors. It's not like you guys who can do whatever they want to do."

Fan Zhipiao's face suddenly slowed down, and Li Guichun, who was beside him, quickly interrupted with a smile: "Since that's the case, our army has brought this prisoner and refugee. Please ask the general Ang Seng and take the people according to the money."

Seeing his flattering looks, Monk An laughed out loud and felt very helpful.

He turned his head to Hu Shangwen and said, "Police Hu, then I'll give them some money. This business is worth 3680 taels."

Hu Shangwen responded with pleasure, and while sending troops to harbor the prisoners and refugees, he also ordered someone to carry the prepared silver box over.

Seeing three boxes of snow-white silver, Bai Cancan placed it in front of him, Fan Zhipu and Li Guichun were both happy.

Damn, it seems that the Tiger Army is really keeping their word and has finished all the money, but this trip has not been in vain.

"Okay, 3,680 taels of silver are all ready here. Let's count it." Hu Shangwen stroked his beard and smiled.

Fan Zhipu and Li Guichun immediately counted it urgently, and the amount was not different. Moreover, except for about 30% of the silver given by the Tiger Army, the rest were full official silver, which made Fan and Li even more happy.

Fan Zhipiao stood up, with a smile on his face, and punched Monk An hard on the shoulder: "The monk who is a dog wants to take him in, why don't he come to report it earlier? I have to give me many prisoners to the civil servants of Huguang in vain!"

The punch was extremely powerful, and Monk An, who was beaten to the point of his shoulder pain, was also annoyed. He punched him back again: "Your mother, this is the rule that Lord Li just set in our army. You guys are so lucky that you can taste the sweetness first."

Fan Zhipu laughed loudly. He wanted to punch back, but was urgently pulled away by the guerrilla Li Guichun.

"Two Shangguans, don't try to practice martial arts again." Li Guichun smiled flatteringly, then turned to Fan Zhipu and said, "General Fan Shen, it's not early now. Since the delivery has been completed, I will return here."

Fan Zhibu nodded, and asked someone to lift the silver box and tie it carefully to the horse. Then, he looked proud and said loudly: "Okay, brother, I still have military affairs, so it's not convenient to stay for a long time. When I get another prisoner next time, Fan will send it again. Monk An, you are so proud, you are not allowed to change the price at will."

"Tsk, I, Lao An, want to keep you for dinner! Don't worry, Lord Li's regulations, I will implement them word by word. Get out of here, bring some refugees and prisoners here next time." Monk An laughed and made a rushing gesture.

Three days later, Zu Kuan, the chief officer of the aid and suppression general in Anlu, was pursuing Zu Kuan, who was remnants of the 100,000 troops. When he heard that Kaifeng general Fan Zhipu, he received more than 3,600 taels of silver from Li Xiao's Tiger Army by selling the captive refugees, he couldn't help but be furious.
Chapter completed!